There are some people who only know me for cornflakes ads, and that's fine. I have a charmed life.

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

I'm prone to a more depressed outlook on life.

I'm a very, very handsome man, and have had to come to terms with it... um, do I like the way I look? In the right light, and with a following wind.

When you're doing stand-up, you can comment if something fails, get a laugh from that.

I don't think any of my kids would have a good word to say about me. I think they deny that they even know me. At school, they pretend they are Anton du Beke's kids.

I just look like someone with a long face. Not just A. P. McCoy himself, but some of the horses he rides.

If you're a comedian, you are looking for material in daily life.

I would have to say my earthy sensuality - although I should point out that the backs of my calves are exemplary and my upper inner thigh is a delight.

I still have lots of friends from my pre-success days.

I think, if you've got children, that's your life. Your 'showbiz' life, if you want to call it that, is a separate thing, and it isn't everything to me.

Writers cannot choose their own mood: with them it is not always hide-tide, nor --thank Heaven!--always Storm.

For me, there is a strange beauty in remembering.

Where did it all begin? These are simple questions, but just as the humid summer air that can be felt but not touched, the answers are elusive.

The simple dignity of a child drinking a bowl of milk embodies the fascination of an ancient rite.

I don't care who you are, everyone has been through it - that feeling where you'd like to be someone else.

Does anything on you work properly?" Asked ter Borcht. "Well, I do have a highly developed sense of irony." Replied Iggy.

Welcome to New York, where everybody's a stranger, and nobody is.

The boy told himself that, on the way toward realizing his own destiny, he had learned all he needed to know, and had experienced everything he might have dreamed of.

If you want to succeed you must never stop learning, never stop trying and just keep being yourself. You are your own person. You make the choices in life that affect you.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.